Thanks for all the welcomes to a new member of the forum.

I've already found a lot of interesting stuff in old posts, particularly on one of my interests - best, quick, satisfactory painting techniques for 10mm castings.
My favoured technique for small castings is a white undercoat, followed by a dark brown wash over the whole casting.   This wash does a satisfactory, quick, final job of the face, of any other flesh and lines all other recesses.
I then paint all the colours using an almost dry brushing, leaving dark brown edging between different colours.   The colours are just dabbed in quick, small quantities and then highlighted (including nose and forehead). 
I do not try to be very precise going right into the edges where two colours will meet as the brown lining just appears like a dark, shadded recess.   It is particularly good with red coated ECW figures.
Of course I finish with a matt varnish.  It is a very quick way of achieving a reasonable paint job. 

I now realise my maiden speech should not have been under the heading of "Who wants Mongols" but rather under a painting heading.
Just got carried away !

Scipio (Africanus)

Quote from: republic of tolworth on 30 July 2013, 07:51:27 AM
Well who am I to buck a trend?!

A massive one pack is all I need to add to my Asian army   
1 x MON 12 please.

You will need more, unless you want your tiny army to be crushed 

Well 1 figure per baase and you have a dba army with troops left over..or the is over confident like his namesake

I will pledge 15 quid just to take it to 1750

 1700 surely???

yeah your right...dont know whats happening to me these days

   Who knows, but at £15 that's 3 DBA armies!!!

Sorry chaps - brain engaged in the boring world of reality and work (cringe).

Put me down for six packs. As I said, I am really looking for Huns, so i will select whatever comes closest to looking like one from over 2 feet away .

Cheers,

JP

Hello there

Thanks for all the posts, I've updated the total now, so we're currently at £1728!  Not far to go before we hit that next target, so hopefully we'll have some dismounted command coming before tomorrow night!

surely someone somewhere wants another 6 packs 

Please add the following to my order

3 x MON12 - Camp followers + pack horses (4 poses + horse)

3 x MON14 - Yurts (3) - A pack of 3 different Yurts! 

Hopefully that will take it over the £1750 mark

Alan

Woop woop: give it up for Shedman.

On behalf of all pledgers...we hail you Alan 

Quote from: get2grips on 30 July 2013, 04:44:20 PM
Woop woop: give it up for Shedman.

On behalf of all pledgers...we hail you Alan 

I second that 

Quote from: Shedman on 30 July 2013, 04:09:45 PM
Please add the following to my order

3 x MON12 - Camp followers + pack horses (4 poses + horse)

3 x MON14 - Yurts (3) - A pack of 3 different Yurts! 

Hopefully that will take it over the £1750 mark

Thanks for the post, I'll go and update the total now!  That means we've past the £1750 and we'll now have some dismounted command as well!  I've added MON16 to the lists now, so if anyone would like to add that pack to their pledge, let me know.




If we can manage to hit the £2000 mark, which would be fantastic, we'll do a pack of generic peasants, which will be another freebie for everyone who pledges.